Lead Change for a World of Change

Powerful relationships create meaningful change.

We support you to amplify the power of relationship—with yourself, others, and the world—to lead organizational and social change!

Novalda is a change leadership coaching and consulting services company.

We specialize in working with brink leaders—the pioneers, leapers, influencers and bridge -builders of this world—to develop change leadership capability for organizational transformation and social innovation.

Want to lead the next wave of change?

Leaders

We partner with leaders who are at the forefront of leading cultural transformations in organizations and social systems. Amplify your power to lead change. Develop your change leadership capability with our online signature program and customized leadership coaching programs.

Organizations

We work with responsive, innovative organizations who are leading structural & cultural changes to transform the way you do business in the world. Emerge the change leadership capability of your organization with our online signature program & one-on-one and team coaching.

Social Systems

We support social change networks who are tapping into their collective voice and emerging social transformation. Amplify your collective power to lead change. Develop your change leadership capability with our online signature program and customized leadership coaching programs.

We’re a Collaborative Team of Coaches.

We co-create an atmosphere of courage and commitment, connection and collaboration, and curiosity and creativity from which powerfully responsible and accountable relationships emerge.

Kerry Woodcock

Principal, Change Leadership Coach

Lucy Shenouda

Leadership Coach

Sherry Matheson

“Out on the edge, you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the centre.”• Kurt Vonnegut Are you ready to be uncomfortable? As change leaders, we are after all in the business of challenging the status quo. Yes to discomfort? You’re up for that? Then let’s begin –...

“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” • Marcel Proust For four magical years, I lived in a mud hut in Tanzania, working with a non-governmental organization on changing roles in forest management. Surrounded by the...

“Power is more than an objective assignment of position, or the possession of status ... Power is a state of mind.” • Julie Diamond “I’m tired of all the power plays,” I hear myself say. It’s an odd sentiment for a systems coach to express. By definition, my work is...

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”• Albert Einstein You have a brilliant idea to progress your organization, yet you hesitate to bring it forward. When you tried to manage change in the...

Courage is essential to change leadership. It's a magic carpet that can carry us over the edge of change. Finding the courage to pursue your dreams by speaking them out loud takes time and practice, but it is a skill worth nurturing. I grew up in a small market town,...

"This is a time of tremendous change where, like it or not, you’re going to have periods of confusion. Like it or not, you’re going to turn into a novice over and over again.”• Carol Dweck Ninety minutes into a workshop about leading change effectively, the questions...

As I stand at the heart of confused and disorganized change, turbulence swirls around me and through those closest to me. From this vantage point in the eye of the storm, I see the reactivity created by controlling and compliant behaviors. A tendency toward control in...

“The thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves …. You can’t be one thing without being, in some ways, the other thing. It’s about how to reconcile, how to be tolerant of all the possibilities.”• Ali Smith In her prize-winning...

Believe it or not, standing firm against change can be valuable to a change initiative. Resistance to change can come from deep within. In Michael Crummey’s novel Sweetland, a contemporary Newfoundland community explores the possibility of being resettled....

"At the end of the day, you just ask yourself, ‘How did our vision and values influence decisions I made today?’ If they did not, then they are pretty much BS."• Peter Senge, systems scientist Core values are vital to engaging your team and creating a culture of...